Because reads through your own account are free, Birdfeeder can pull your full Mastodon bookmark history and store the text of every post, including its hashtags. That means the search box works across everything you have ever saved, not just the handful of posts still visible on your home instance.
Mastodon keeps a plain list of saved posts with no search over it. You cannot filter by the account that wrote a post or look for a phrase buried in a thread. Birdfeeder searches your whole archive, so a few remembered words or a hashtag are enough to surface the exact post in an instant.
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| Bookmark Search |
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| Filter bookmarks |
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| Full-text search |
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| Find bookmarks containing specific words |
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Search by keyword, hashtag, or the handle of the account that wrote the post (like
@user@instance), and land on the bookmark you were after right away.